Virtual museums and a grim article on real museums
This link to a dozen museums you can visit virtually is now in our TikTok bio as well https://t.co/I3kLxYi5lk pic.twitter.com/QovMhElq2q
— Dave Jorgenson 💡 (@davejorgenson) March 18, 2020
Holy cats. "1/3 of #museums surveyed in the US were operating in the red or close to it before COVID; 3/4 have now closed and 1/3 will not reopen if the crisis continues." https://t.co/Purw8Df35D
— Michelle Moon (@MichelleNMoon) March 18, 2020
Have been talking to Trump supporters today. They say he has done the best he could with the information he had.
I do not believe they have read stories like these:https://t.co/Efn5W88aFP
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) March 18, 2020
NEW from Gallup:
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 9, 2020
Conservative only vs. liberal only "news media diet"
-57% vs 28% blv COVID no more deadly than flu. (FALSE)
-71% vs 28% blv media paying too much atten.
-94% vs 11% blv Trump doing great job.
conserv: Fox, Breitbart, OAN, Nat Review
liberal: MSNBC, NYT, CNN, Vox
CNN poll:
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) April 8, 2020
Non-college white approval on Trump’s handling of coronavirus: 62%
College white disapproval on Trump’s handling of coronavirus: 63%https://t.co/kQ80tHOta8
Share of American voters leaving their homes and going out as usual via new Quinnipiac poll:
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 8, 2020
2% women
2% white women
2% suburban
2% Democrats
3% Hispanic
4% black
5% white
5% independents
5% city
7% rural
7% Republicans
8% men
9% white men
Trump’s worst nightmare is Republican voters turning against him. It’s happening. pic.twitter.com/WMUQlv9fcG
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) April 7, 2020
One of the big things that Democrats and Republicans disagree about is what's more worrisome: the health or economic impacts of the coronavirus. 77% of Democrats are more worried about health; 69% of Republicans are more worried about jobs & the economy. (14/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020
Democrats and Republicans are also divided on the news media. Democrats think the media is giving an accurate picture (64%) or even under-reporting the outbreak (15%). Republicans overwhelmingly believe (71%) that the media is making the outbreak sound worse than it is. (15/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020
Democrats, Republicans, and Independents agree: The coronavirus is a real threat, not blown out of proportion. Even so, there is still a big partisan divide.
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020
Percent saying "real threat" by party:
Democrats: 94%
Republicans: 51%
Independents: 73%
(9/?)
In sum, more than half of US households (54%) have either lost work or had hours cut (26%), or are insecure/at risk: 28% are extremely or moderately concerned about the financial impact of coronavirus on their household. (7/?)
— Drew Linzer (@DrewLinzer) March 31, 2020
CNN Poll: Americans are divided over government handling of the coronavirus outbreak https://t.co/em713GGR5r pic.twitter.com/wcRqUv5Fk1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 30, 2020
Share of Americans (by age) who say coronavirus is a major threat to their personal health:
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 29, 2020
18-29: 27%
30-49: 31%
50-64: 40%
65+: 47%https://t.co/9Kp4ckqcnX pic.twitter.com/PghBsOH1Rs
this should spur some reflection among business/opinion elites who have been voicing the 11% view in something of an echo chamberhttps://t.co/epxMzcgPAs
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) March 27, 2020
New polling on media attention and #covid-19 from YouGov and The Economist:
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) March 18, 2020
% who say they are worried about the virus, by media they most pay attention to:
MSNBC: 74%
National newspapers (NYT/WaPo): 72
CNN: 71
Broadcast news: 68
Local news: 57
Radio: 49
Fox News: 38
America has officially gone berserk.
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) March 27, 2020
Concern about #COVID19 is now partisan: Democrats fear the #pandemic, Republicans think the #coronavirus is no big deal.
This is not science.
This is "belief" – as in, "I believe it's ok right now to party hearty at a beach kegger." pic.twitter.com/7bYt8tfFqH
Navigating Coronavirus: State and local governments are more trusted on the pandemic response than President Trump and the federal government (@NavigatorSurvey) Details: https://t.co/MVgemGFly1 pic.twitter.com/V1MVW5OccG
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) March 28, 2020
75% of Democrats view the coronavirus outbreak as a significant crisis for the country. 58% of Republicans say the same. https://t.co/dbk64MdHoa pic.twitter.com/smAbzrJrKV
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) March 29, 2020
Uneven coronavirus spread leads to uneven partisan response (@Dchinni @chucktodd) Details: https://t.co/qrcfPE1FbY pic.twitter.com/dpsFHfxDe4
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) March 29, 2020
Partisanship, gender, and age are among the most important factors when it comes to peoples' attitudes toward social distancing measures
— Brad Jones (@B_radJ_ones) April 7, 2020
Younger, Rep men tend to be the most likely to say they would feel comfortable engaging in a range of activitieshttps://t.co/LhHlGsmuhZ pic.twitter.com/Uu3or5K8IF
This is an extremely important story, not least because of the way it was originally reported: That the US is trying to steal Germany's vaccine industry, and hoard the results for itself https://t.co/M1fb5o22vq
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) March 16, 2020
German officials to discuss reported U.S. attempt to buy exclusive rights to coronavirus vaccine https://t.co/bkw4dbjpUh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 16, 2020
Trump tried to poach German scientists working on a cure for coronavirus and offered cash so the vaccine would be exclusive to the USA https://t.co/BOriyRJdn5
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) March 15, 2020
Germany's health ministry is confirming this bombshell story from German media outlet @welthttps://t.co/h1rgaNGn9b pic.twitter.com/iJqqIhpgNn
— Aman Batheja (@amanbatheja) March 15, 2020
Somewhere out in Rube Nation, there's a guy who thinks this was a stroke of genius and is going to bitch that the only problem is that some European journo panty-waist blew the whistle. https://t.co/Ov5ElQTvJC
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 15, 2020
Trump has offered big money to German medical company for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media report.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 15, 2020
German government fighting off what it sees as aggressive takeover bid by the US.
Trump brain: MAGA by making other nations more vulnerable to coronavirus.
The Trump admin has offered a German medical company "large sums of money" for exclusive access to a Covid-19 vaccine, German media have reported.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 15, 2020
Trump had offered CureVac "large sums of money" to gain exclusive access to their work, wrote Die Welt. https://t.co/l0QHw0OgYG
German government is trying to stop the US government from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the US, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine. https://t.co/RUApx6WI7M
— NBC News Business (@NBCNewsBusiness) March 15, 2020
Of course, he claimed he wasn’t involved. He’s a liar.
Updated my piece to note that at least 5 Democrats – @SenWarren @PattyMurray @SenSherrodBrown @GerryConnolly and @RepBera – wrote to the Trump White House in 2018 to warn that disbanding the NSC pandemic preparedness team was dangerous https://t.co/Wd2FXoIwlX
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) April 2, 2020
White House economists projected *last September* that a pandemic in the United States could kill 500k and inflict up to $4T in damage to the economy.
— Jim Tankersley (@jimtankersley) March 31, 2020
They warned policymakers against conflating those risks with the cost of the common flu. https://t.co/NMprcaufeH
NEW: Two months before the novel coronavirus likely began spreading in Wuhan, the Trump administration ended a $200-million program aimed at detecting — well, novel coronaviruses. The staff had been working with the lab in — well, Wuhan. w/ @RaineyTime https://t.co/N9LsMS3eN3
— Emily Baumgaertner (@Emily_Baum) April 3, 2020
Again, the playbook was called “PLAYBOOK FOR EARLY RESPONSE TO HIGH-CONSEQUENCE EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE THREATS AND BIOLOGICAL INCIDENTS.”https://t.co/7TPjzPxMPT
— subscribe to my newsletter (@brianbeutler) March 26, 2020
We knew it could happen.
— Jeremy THANK YOU HEALTH HEROES Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) March 26, 2020
We knew it *would* eventually happen.
So:
We left them a playbook.
We left them an expert NSC team.
We built a transition exercise around it.
We built new programs to prepare for it.
They ignored/closed/undermined all of that.
This is horseshit. https://t.co/fAAU4IENM0
Here's the full 69-page, step-by-step playbook on how to manage a pandemic. It was handed to Trump's team at a Jan. 2017 tabletop exercise with outgoing Obama officials.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 26, 2020
Based on two wasted months of Trump downplaying the crisis, it's pretty obvious no one paid attention to this https://t.co/dhfFvSDWSN
Trump claimed he knew nothing about WH disbanding pandemic team.
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) March 17, 2020
But video shows he did:
“Some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather than spending the money”. https://t.co/HUGLmEnXIX
There might be an explanation for why disbanding the pandemic unit wasn't unwise. But the president declines to give it and instead goes to name-calling at the questioner. Then some of his supporters get mad at reporters for asking the question https://t.co/TKnvSQrMeG
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 14, 2020
Two years ago, President Trump fired the entire global health security team at the White House. Their job?
— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) March 13, 2020
Managing pandemics.
Now we're all paying the price for President Trump's decisions. pic.twitter.com/TiXVOnRGLa
This wasn’t a nasty letter. But it was a prescient one. https://t.co/WtES5nJf6R
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 13, 2020
“I ran the White House pandemic office. Trump closed it.” — @BethCameron_DC https://t.co/4wAhgubzQJ
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 13, 2020
If you wanna know what @Yamiche was asking about, here's Trump ADMITTING to cutting the Pandemic Response Team in 2018. #NastyQuestion pic.twitter.com/TVdoXiutoA
— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) March 13, 2020
Smart thread by @MSNBC on what happened to the disbanded White House pandemic office in 2018. https://t.co/soQmhCNMI0
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 13, 2020
President trump didn't take responsibility for his decision to disband the White House pandemic team…..once again he pleaded ignorance as a defensepic.twitter.com/bSQS6vr7Qf
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) March 13, 2020
May 2018 https://t.co/RWCTO6YVy0
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) March 13, 2020
The facts about the disbanding of Trump White House office on pandemics courtesy of @KenDilanianNBC https://t.co/rOLay7zo4c
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) March 13, 2020
There might be an explanation for why disbanding the pandemic unit wasn't unwise. But the president declines to give it and instead goes to name-calling at the questioner. Then some of his supporters get mad at reporters for asking the question https://t.co/TKnvSQrMeG
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 14, 2020
SCOOP: The Department of Homeland Security stopped updating its annual models of the havoc that pandemics would wreak on America’s critical infrastructure in 2017. @dlippman's latest: https://t.co/De6gzifP4f
— POLITICO Press (@POLITICOPress) March 25, 2020
Trump is calling it a false story that he disbanded the NSC team responsible for global pandemics in 2018.
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) April 1, 2020
John Roberts from Fox News was the one who brought it up.
It is not a false story. It happened.
Trump can’t rewrite history and manipulate objective reality with words.
In addition to Warren and Patty Murray, Sen. Sherrod Brown also sent a letter to the White House on the reports of the disbanding of the pandemic unit on the NSC.
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) April 2, 2020
And Democratic Congressmen Ami Bera and Gerald Connoll who cited the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu. pic.twitter.com/AXY4xZFbZh
This has some very strong "Bin Laden determined to strike in US" energy. h/t @chrislhayes pic.twitter.com/VhstU9Ss86
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) April 3, 2020
Lie, exaggerate – either one will do. He was not truthful at a time when we need facts. I assume he did this to get the stock market to rise.
"I don't know where the press got their fake news," says Trump, who falsely claimed on Friday Google had 1700 engineers working on a nationwide website that would be ready quickly. Then he suggested he wants an apology. Then on to listing heads of corporations.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 15, 2020
False.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020
Media outlets contacted Google. Google said sister company Verily was in the "early stages" of developing a website for the Bay Area in particular. *More than 24 hours later,* Google changed its tune and said it is working with the federal government on a national site. pic.twitter.com/NdJmF34SmB
The news media has been trying to report on the spread of the coronavirus. The president is flatly wrong below and he's trying to increase mistrust in the media during a health crisis. https://t.co/qrPUdw3vO8
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 15, 2020
The Trump administration is lying to the country about the current scope of Google's coronavirus screening website. pic.twitter.com/gLF3NTOyl5
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 14, 2020
Among Trump’s most brazen lies was the whopper he told the nation about Google’s supposed plans for an all-purpose Coronavirus website. He just made the whole thing up as if nobody would bother checking — and as if he knew his credibility was zero anyway https://t.co/kf8s9SVFju
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) March 14, 2020
OMG. Google's not making a nationwide coronavirus testing website. And the company had no idea the president would say it was. https://t.co/pkybAdYFGw
— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) March 14, 2020
One of the biggest stories out of today's news conference is that, once again, Trump misinformed the public in the midst of a crisis… https://t.co/7uexv1EkKS
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 14, 2020
Trump said Google is building a website to determine whether people need tests for COVID-19 and that "Google has 1700 engineers working on this right now." Google said its Verily life sciences unit is "in the early stages of development" on such a tool.https://t.co/PXHu0wl7El
— Axios (@axios) March 13, 2020
Update: contrary to Trump’s claim, Google is not building a nationwide coronavirus screening website https://t.co/3gNj7bghMk pic.twitter.com/xeyqnHHGD6
— The Verge (@verge) March 13, 2020
oh man. sounds like Google thinks Trump and the White House overpromised on the testing portal website. “early stages of development” https://t.co/yIe5UNfcZj
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) March 13, 2020
From a Google employee just now: "There's absolutely not 1,700 engineers at Verily." https://t.co/RnoUyM2Ab6
— Blake Montgomery (@blakersdozen) March 13, 2020
From a new release by the White House press secretary:
— David Gura (@davidgura) March 13, 2020
"The Administration is working with Google to develop a website Americans can go to determine whether a test is needed and, if so, facilitate testing at a nearby location."
President Trump appeared to raise eyebrows when he said that Google was working on a website that would help the public “determine whether a [coronavirus] test is warranted”—a tool which Google clarified is still “in the very early stages of development” https://t.co/CfS4AvYaV4
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 13, 2020
Trump said the whole system will be up and running by Sunday night. Now, it turns out, it’s a pilot program for just the Bay Area? This is crazy. And he had the audacity to take a jab at the ACA website. Is this just another Trump con? https://t.co/9arthZSdGl
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 14, 2020
Trump lies in his attacks on Obama. Even if he was telling the truth, I don’t see how this helps solve the current crisis.
Trump attacks the Obama administration for their handling of the swine flu — as if that excuses his government's failures with respect to the coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/XaChdLDQLK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2020
Trump, bashing the Obama administration again, falsely claims that, with H1N1, "They didn't do testing like this" and that they didn't do testing until "far too late." The H1N1 testing numbers were exponentially higher.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 13, 2020
Another idiotic comment by @realDonaldTrump.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 13, 2020
Trump Ties Obama to C.D.C.’s ‘Inadequate’ Testing System https://t.co/DbsfqFkgxt
1. Trump fired the pandemic response unit created by Obama after Ebola.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 13, 2020
2. Trump cut CDC funding
3. During H1N1, 1 million people were tested within a month of the first diagnosis.
4. Stop Tweeting and do your job https://t.co/FnlsvzuweC
If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on! https://t.co/hH7v31DdYj
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 13, 2020
Trump now appears to be deliberately distorting the swine flu timeline in order to deflect criticism onto Obama. https://t.co/ra97ktiM7F
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 13, 2020
As Trump tries blaming Obama for CDC problems, let's recall:
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 13, 2020
-Every Trump budget has proposed cutting CDC's budget. His OMB chief still backs cutting $1.2 billion this year
-Trump's 2017 hiring freeze left 700 CDC positions vacant
(From May 2017👇) https://t.co/q5hO0g9flt
tfw you fired the whole pandemic response team proposed huge cuts to the cdc and squandered weeks of lead time before the new infection reached the country https://t.co/Gc83MDdEUa
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 13, 2020
TRUMP LIED AGAIN: PolitiFact confirms the Obama-Biden administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency BEFORE anyone in the US died, contradicting Trump’s tweet that desperately tried to deflect from his own incompetent response to the coronavirus. https://t.co/VP5cKGaD9o
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) March 13, 2020
Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020
The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw
President Trump on Friday again claimed that his response to the coronavirus was hindered by the Obama administration, which left office 3 years ago https://t.co/3UO5wk7f8X
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) March 13, 2020
Fact checking President Trump's claim on swine flu tests
— CNN (@CNN) March 14, 2020
Facts First: Trump is wrong. The CDC did focus on testing — conducting 5,000 tests in the first month and sending out a total of 1 million tests in the first five months of the outbreak. https://t.co/Jd3eqVjmVh
Temporarily leaving aside the rest: The CDC estimate is that 12,469 people died in the US from H1N1, though “17,000” is within the estimate range. And Biden was not “in charge” like Trump has put Pence; Biden was involved but not the lead, contrary to Trump’s claims/suggestions. pic.twitter.com/o4r8qtQFjA
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020
Washing your hands is important in preventing the coronavirus.
.@drsanjaygupta provides a hand-washing tutorial, including the importance of interlacing your fingers and also washing the back of your hands. https://t.co/SKKTecRe1d pic.twitter.com/ZeMQNDTxJe
— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2020
Washing your hands is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself and others from illness. Here’s the technique experts say is best. https://t.co/jrtllJWkjo pic.twitter.com/fwppWT6JHe
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 13, 2020
The best protection against coronavirus is washing your hands — but you have to do it properly:
— CNN (@CNN) March 13, 2020
🚿 Wet your hands
🚿 Lather, making sure to get soap in all the nooks and crannies
🚿 Scrub for *20 seconds*
🚿 Rinse and *dry thoroughly*https://t.co/yR7MZPeVEB
What Happens When You Don’t Wash Your Hands
This is the best demonstration of proper hand-washing that I've seen. Blue paint shows precisely the spots that we tend to miss. I think of it every time I wash.
— Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755) March 19, 2020
Worth a watch. https://t.co/Q2qXxW3Os2
While you're scrubbing your hands to help stop the spread of Covid-19, you're also killing off a host of other nasty bacteria and potentially lethal viruses that have plagued humans for centuries — including influenza and other coronaviruses. https://t.co/C7bLMgU2TK
— CNN (@CNN) March 24, 2020
Trump is interested in a temporary cut to payroll taxes that support Social Security and Medicare. I am concerned that Republicans would use the reduced solvency of the programs as an excuse to cut benefits. Every problem cannot be solved with a tax cut!
Trump's radical plan to waive payroll tax would punch a hole in Social Security and Medicare budgets https://t.co/vobYq2dirB pic.twitter.com/y1lBdyYwvQ
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 11, 2020
BREAKING: Some Senate Republicans express openness to quickly passing House Dems coronavirus bill, depending on what is in the final passage. Momentum has moved away from Trump payroll tax push and toward focus on paid family leave. https://t.co/OSE1sgsALH
— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) March 11, 2020
Trump says he’s going to propose a payroll tax cut to help hourly workers deal with coronavirus. So, they’ll pay a smaller % of taxes on the $0 they’ll earn when they’re out sick? Trump has zero idea how real jobs work because he’s never done one.
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) March 10, 2020
JUST IN: Trump pitched 0% payroll tax rate for the rest of this year, White House officials say.https://t.co/GB6rQdyANL
— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) March 10, 2020
Michael Strain and Jason Furman agree: Don’t cut the payroll tax. Just send people money https://t.co/T1cfzqR3hp
— David Wessel (@davidmwessel) March 11, 2020
Trump's move to halt the payroll tax is to starve Social Security and Medicare (which payroll taxes fund) to move forward his agenda to cut Social Security and Medicare.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) March 11, 2020
As a negotiator on Obama/Biden payroll tax cut, I want to second @jasonfurman @paulkrugman The 2011-2012 payroll tax cut was positive because this $240 billion in additional stimulus was best we could get w/GOP House resistance – NOT because it was the best or most fair design.
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) March 10, 2020
Scoop: Trump told Republican senators in private lunch that he wants a payroll tax holiday *through the November election,* sources tell me. He doesn’t want taxes to go back up before voters decide whether to return him to office. Story out soon.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) March 10, 2020
Two-thirds of Trump’s payroll tax cut would go to the richest 20% of Americans, with the poorest 40% getting only 6% of the benefit, writes columnist @hiltzikm. https://t.co/SzrWKZyD5e
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 18, 2020
Sad!